El árbol

Last updated: Jul 20, 2019

FOUNDATION EL ARBOL is committed to protecting individual privacy and securing the personal information made available by users of FOUNDATION EL ARBOL websites (that is, all sites within the “Foundation El Arbol.nl” domain and FOUNDATION EL ARBOL country sites, “FOUNDATION EL ARBOL website”) as well as FOUNDATION EL ARBOL web pages on other sites (such as official FOUNDATION EL ARBOL profiles on social networks).

This privacy policy describes what information is made available to FOUNDATION EL ARBOL and third parties when you visit Foundation El Arbol.nl or official FOUNDATION EL ARBOL web pages on other sites, and how FOUNDATION EL ARBOL uses and stores that information. Any information voluntarily disclosed to FOUNDATION EL ARBOL by users of FOUNDATION EL ARBOL website is held with the utmost care and security and will not be used in ways other than as set forth in this privacy policy.

What does FOUNDATION EL ARBOL do with the information you provide?

Providing information is your choice. When you undertake certain actions on our website, such as donating, signing up for our email newsletter, or filling in a form to register your interest in our activities (such as a petition), you knowingly provide us with personal information about you, such as your name, email address, postal address and other information.

In this event, FOUNDATION EL ARBOL will store this information securely, and will not share, rent or sell it to any other organization for their marketing purposes. However, we reserve the right to share this information with our procured service providers for the purpose of carrying out communications and marketing activity on behalf of FOUNDATION EL ARBOL, or of completing a donation transaction that you initiate.

You will only be contacted by FOUNDATION EL ARBOL for purposes related to the work of FOUNDATION EL ARBOL and you can request to have your name removed from our mailing list at any time (see below how to opt out).

Through the use of data such as your email address, we can target messages for you on social media platforms and identify other people on the Internet who are most likely to support FOUNDATION EL ARBOL work and help refugees. This may require uploading an encrypted list of email addresses to social media platforms of service providers such as Facebook. This data is not stored or reused by such service providers and is only held for the duration of the matching process. If you would not like your data to be used in this way, please let us know by writing to

Additionally, if you upload content to a FOUNDATION EL ARBOL website or an official FOUNDATION EL ARBOL social media account, we will be able to see certain information, for example in the EXIF data supplied when you submit photographs, we can see which type of camera you used, the time/date stamp, and location if that is available. This information might be used to perform verification checks, but will not be shared beyond the FOUNDATION EL ARBOL social media team.

Opting out

Users who provide an email address and/or donate via the FOUNDATION EL ARBOL website and opt-in to receive email communication from FOUNDATION EL ARBOL may receive FOUNDATION EL ARBOL e-newsletter and other email updates. We occasionally also communicate via direct mail, phone and SMS. Each email sent by FOUNDATION EL ARBOL includes an option to remove your address from the mailing list and you may also opt out by sending an email to info@elarbol.nl

Cookie Policy

We place no cookies on our website.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files made up of letters and numbers placed onto your computer or other mobile devices when you access websites.

FOUNDATION EL ARBOL DOES NOT uses cookies to collect information about you.

Third party cookies

Some of the cookies you may receive when visiting FOUNDATION EL ARBOL website are not related to FOUNDATION EL ARBOL. For example, if you visit sections of FOUNDATION EL ARBOL website that contain embedded content such as a YouTube video or a Twitter feed, or contain a plugin such as a Facebook like button, you may receive cookies delivered from these websites. As detailed above, we also use third-party cookies for targeted advertising services and for tracking our website awareness-raising and communications performance.

FOUNDATION EL ARBOL does not govern the settings or use of these third-party cookies, so we suggest that you visit these websites for more information about their cookies and applicable privacy policies.

FOUNDATION EL ARBOL cannot be held responsible for the privacy of data collected by websites that it does not own or manage, even if these websites link to FOUNDATION EL ARBOL website. Modern web browsers provide the ability to disable all cookies or only third-party cookies.

User-Generated Content

FOUNDATION EL ARBOL may ask its community to share their photos and videos with the public on its websites. This type of material is generally defined as User Generated Content.

Users of FOUNDATION EL ARBOL website acknowledge that such content is treated as being non-proprietary and non-confidential. If you send this material to us, either via email, by tagging content on a social network, or via a specifically designed upload site, you are granting FOUNDATION EL ARBOL the irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide right to use, reproduce, modify and publish such material elsewhere in its websites and publications. Furthermore, you grant FOUNDATION EL ARBOL the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such material. However, you still own and can continue to use your content as you like including the ability to also allow others to use it.

If you upload or share your material with a FOUNDATION EL ARBOL website or social media account, it might be used by any FOUNDATION EL ARBOL websites or social media accounts across the globe.

When we ask our community to share content with us, we explain how we intend to use the content. Mostly, we will re-share content on our social media channels or on our websites. If it is particularly strong, we may use content shared with us on FOUNDATION EL ARBOL promotional materials. In those cases, we will attempt to contact you to discuss whether you agree for it to be used, and to ask whether and how you would like to be credited.

FOUNDATION EL ARBOL does not pay for nor does it generate any revenue from selling or licensing individual pieces of UGC.

Personal information collected by FOUNDATION EL ARBOL

If you upload content to a FOUNDATION EL ARBOL website or an official FOUNDATION EL ARBOL social media account, we will be able to see certain information, for example in the EXIF data supplied when you submit photographs, we can see which type of camera you used, the time/date stamp, and location if that is available. This information might be used to perform verification checks, but will not be shared beyond the FOUNDATION EL ARBOL social media team.

Responsibilities of Users

When you submit content to or share material with FOUNDATION EL ARBOL, you must only submit/share your own original content. If your content contains the work(s) of others (e.g. music, images and/or video) you must have obtained the necessary rights or permissions to use that material.

If your content clearly identifies anyone else you will need to ensure that the persons concerned have consented to the content being used by FOUNDATION EL ARBOL. Where your content clearly identifies children under the age of 16 you must ensure that their parent or guardian has provided their consent as set out above.

FOUNDATION EL ARBOL also requires that you do not submit or share any material or information:

That is knowingly false or misleading, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, threatening or invasive of a person’s privacy or unlawful in any way;

Which you do not own or for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals as may be required by law;

Which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, files that contain viruses, corrupted files or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer); or

Impersonating any person or entity, or falsely stating or otherwise misrepresenting your affiliation with anyone or any entity.

Deleting any author attributions, legal notices or proprietary designations or labels in any file that is uploaded;

Falsifying the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded;

Advertising or offering to sell any goods or services, or conducting or forwarding surveys, contests or chain letters, or downloading any file posted by another user of FOUNDATION EL ARBOL websites that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such a manner.

Any inappropriate content will be rejected or removed from FOUNDATION EL ARBOL websites and social media accounts. If in doubt, please do not share your content with FOUNDATION EL ARBOL. If you post on, or transmit to, any of our websites any material of the type prohibited under the above paragraphs or any applicable laws and regulations, and FOUNDATION EL ARBOL incurs any costs, expenses, liability or losses as a result then you agree to indemnify FOUNDATION EL ARBOL for all such costs, expenses, liability or losses.

You should be aware that FOUNDATION EL ARBOL is entitled to reveal your identity (or any information which it has about you) to any third party who is claiming that any of that material violates any of their rights or to any government or regulatory authority that may request FOUNDATION EL ARBOL to do so.

Conditions to upload content

FOUNDATION EL ARBOL also requires that you do not submit or share any material or information:

That is knowingly false or misleading, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, threatening or invasive of a person’s privacy or unlawful in any way;

Which you do not own or for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals as may be required by law;

Impersonating any person or entity, or falsely stating or otherwise misrepresenting your affiliation with anyone or any entity.

Deleting any author attributions, legal notices or proprietary designations or labels in any file that is uploaded;

Falsifying the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded;

Uploading Content to Social Networks

If you upload content to a social network and then tag FOUNDATION EL ARBOL, your submission will be subject to that website’s terms of use and privacy policy. Please be aware of a website’s terms and privacy policy, which may differ from FOUNDATION EL ARBOL’s, when submitting your content to it. Some large UGC websites are also based in the US so your personal information may be stored outside your country where different laws apply.

Notification of change of privacy policy

We will revise or update this policy if our practices change, or as we develop better ways to keep you informed about them. We thus encourage you to visit this section of FOUNDATION EL ARBOL website regularly in order to keep up to date with any changes. Changes to the policy will apply from the date they are posted on our site and shall not apply retroactively.

Last update July 20, 2019.